There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.